Dr.

Nicole Combs
EDU/284
Christina Keaulana
November 2, 2014

RATIONALE
HTSB Standard 2: Learning Differences
Part I: Describe a teaching artifact that represents the overall HTSB standard
Teaching Artifact: Assessment Development
Course: (ED 284)
Teaching Artifact Description: Candidate identifies learners who need additional support and/or
acceleration and designs learning experiences to support their progress.
Teaching Artifact Results: Candidates uses data from assessments to construct alternative
assessments with three levels of differentiation for (1) gifted and talented students, (2) English
language learners, (3) students with special needs.
Part II: Connect teaching artifact to a sub-standard and assess your proficiency
2.1 Candidate
accommodates for the
learner.
Connect the teaching
artifact/assignment with
standard language: I
identified learners who need
additional support and/or
acceleration and designed
learning experiences to
support progress. The Focus
areas of the assignment was
Focus Area #9: Candidate identifies specific needs of students and accommodates with
individualized support, formative assessments, flexible grouping, and varied learning
experiences.
Source: Assessment Development: Nicole Combs (2014).
Self-Assessment (Use the course assignment rubric as your guide):

Rubric Example:

Assignment Rubric
60/60 Create 3 types of formative assessments would you use
for one specific content area such as vocabulary,
safety, procedures, etc.
(20 pts/assessment=60 pts total)
30/30 Based on the student data from ONE of the formative
assessments, describe accommodations you would
make for 3 alternative assessment for different types of
actual or hypothetical students (gifted and talented,
English language learner, student with a disability)
(30 pts)
10/10
Include a rubric/checklist/answer key for each
assessment
(3.3 pts/assessment rubric=10 pts total)

I attempted to include each element called for on the rubric. I earned full points on the
assignment. The feedback was good. The only suggestion was to do something a little differently
with the ELL student, rather than pairing them with someone. I will do this at the point where I
actually teach this lesson.
Evidence that supports self-assessment (include student samples/data where appropriate)
Example of artifact:

Part III: Improve your proficiency for the HTSB standard

2.1 Does candidate identify learners who need additional support and/or acceleration and
design learning experiences to support their progress?
Research Findings:
Implementation of findings (please describe or demonstrate a specific example):

According to Dr. Combs, my assessment development was good, but it would be beneficial
provide methods for students to tie what they already know into the unit.
o Resource: Dr. Sandra CombsHawaiian Studies Teacher, Kapaa High School, Kapaa, HI

Since I am not teaching this term, I wanted to research alternative assessments for students. One
article I found was very helpful. They used the example of dyslexia. Since I have mild dyslexia, it
was very interesting to see the options for assessments. These options could be used for other
issues students might have. According to the article, The majority of dyslexic students require
extra time in timed exam situations because of their slow information processing skills. While
many of the alternative forms of assessment will not require extra time, others will, e.g. multiple
choice web-based exam. It is important that extra time is built in as a reasonable adjustment to the
allocated time (Edinburgh Napier University, 2014). Below are 35 alternative assessments
suggested:
1. Oral
2. Home exam (14 days open book)
3. Poster exam (individual or group)
4. Group presentation
5. Individual presentation
6. Written assignment
7. Reflective journal
8. Diary
9. Research project (mini)
10. Portfolio
11. Exhibition
12. Demonstration
13. Short answer questions
14. Performance task (individual or group) - e.g. create a product
15. Multiple choice
16. Case study - problem solving model
17. Case study - patient support
18. Cross subject holistic case study or project, e.g. nursing and comp. therapies
19. Debates
20. Brochures
21. Advertisements
22. Annotated bibliography
23. Editorial
24. Diagnosis of condition
25. Critique (artistic, literary, political environmental, social etc)
26. Reflective essay
27. Magazine article
28. News or feature story
29. SPSS and or other graph (interpretation and representation of information)
30. Review of article or other piece of literature or exhibition, display
31. Web page design
32. Website evaluation (accuracy, current, reliability, authority)
33. Research paper
34. Research proposal
35. Smaller tasks related to written coursework such as - thesis statement where author's view is
expressed

Reference: http://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/sas/Student
%20Wellbeing/disability/support_info_staff/learning_difficulties/Pages/alternative_forms_assess
ment.aspx

I went to youtube.com to see what I could find about alternative assessment. There
were thousands of examples. The following video was very helpful in suggesting ten
options for alternative assessment.

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkK06hpQmt4
Lesson:
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